Do you mind people contacting you by a free email account?

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@youless (112113)
Guangzhou, China
September 14, 2011 8:42pm CST
Today it is so common for people to contact with each other by emails. Do you mind that if they contact you by an email account which is totally free of charge, such as from Gmail, Hotmail and so on? I don't mind it for sure, since I use Hotmail as my main email account
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@thanks1961 (7035)
• India
15 Sep 11
Hi, 90% of my mails are coming to my office id only. Very rarely only I used to give my personal id to others as such the mails to this personal id also comparatively less only. As I cannot access my personal mails from office, I prefer to give my office id. Still, if I am at home and I supposed to get an emergency mail, I should give the personal id also. So, for me both personal and official ids are equally important. But it is advised that having only 1 or 2 ids are ideal than having so many ids with many internet providers as we may not be able to check all ids regularly and if we got limited ids, we may not miss most of the mails whichever is coming to us. Thank-s
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@youless (112113)
• Guangzhou, China
16 Sep 11
Sometimes I am afraid the personal emails may be seen by others if I use an office email.
@lkbooi (16070)
• Malaysia
15 Sep 11
Hi youless, other than my loved ones I welcome my friends as well as people I know keep in touch with me via my free email account. I'm happy with my free email accounts. The first one I have been using since the first time I had got into internet serves its purpose pretty well I'm used to check this mailbox whenever I'm online Have a nice day
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@youless (112113)
• Guangzhou, China
15 Sep 11
I started to use my Hotmail account since 1997
@lkbooi (16070)
• Malaysia
15 Sep 11
I'm a year later than you. My first email account is yahoo. I'm still using this account until today I will glue to it...unless any undesired inconvenience happens.
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@GardenGerty (157551)
• United States
15 Sep 11
If people are my friends, I do not mind what e mail they contact me with. I use a free e mail account as well.
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@stephcjh (38473)
• United States
15 Sep 11
That is the same way with me. I have a regular email and a Hotmail address. I just don't want to be spammed.
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@youless (112113)
• Guangzhou, China
15 Sep 11
This is why today I use other email accounts to sign up websites
@stephcjh (38473)
• United States
15 Sep 11
I really do not mind if I signed up to receive emails from them or if I know them. I do not like getting spam emails though.
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@youless (112113)
• Guangzhou, China
15 Sep 11
I also don't like getting spams.
@myfb2009 (8296)
• Malaysia
15 Sep 11
In fact, getting spam emails only wasting our time, reading and deleting them. How i wish there is a good spam reader which able to protect our email box, from receiving spam and unwanted emails...
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@gloryacam (5540)
• Philippines
15 Sep 11
I don't mind at all. I've been a yahoo subscriber for as long as I can remember and I know that the current email I used, I opened more than 15 years ago.
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@youless (112113)
• Guangzhou, China
15 Sep 11
What a long time!
@gloryacam (5540)
• Philippines
15 Sep 11
That's right. And I regret the day I deleted some emails in the past. Sometimes, I look into my old emails and they give me a smile.
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• China
15 Sep 11
I only have Netease and Yahoo emails.However I often receive a lot of spams which are quite a bother to me.
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@youless (112113)
• Guangzhou, China
15 Sep 11
I also have a Netease email account but I use it for registration only.
• China
15 Sep 11
I think the Gmail and hotmail must be wonderful.
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@aprilsong (1884)
• China
15 Sep 11
Hi,friend, i don't care about that at all. What i care about is who are they, not what kind of email account are they using. If we can have a free email account to contact friend, why we try those paid email account, anyway, saving money has no fault at all.
@youless (112113)
• Guangzhou, China
15 Sep 11
Some people think that the paid email accounts may have better service but I can't see the difference.
@skysuccess (8858)
• Singapore
15 Sep 11
youless, I do not mind at all. For one, I am a Gmail account holder myself along with a host of Chinese web mail accounts as well. These web based email accounts aren't that bad at all considering their amount of storage space and other related services like a digital photo album, personal storage space for various format files and many more. It is also restriction free as compared to email accounts allotted by our own local Internet Service Provider (ISP) which will tie us down to the company when we depend on these email accounts. And as for accessibility, I do not think the ISP emails are that user-friendly when compared to these free web based email accounts.
@youless (112113)
• Guangzhou, China
15 Sep 11
Unfortunately sometimes Gmail seems to be slow here and you probably know this silly reason.
@cream97 (29087)
• United States
18 Sep 11
Hi, youless. No. I don't mind at all. This is a free email service so that means that I can create as many free accounts as I would like to. So, if people decide to contact me through this free email account, then it would not bother me, because I can just use this account as a junk email address. I just would never give them my main email address. I don't want my main email account to be flooded with a bunch of emails.
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@youless (112113)
• Guangzhou, China
19 Sep 11
You are smart.
@neildc (17239)
• Lapu-Lapu City, Philippines
15 Sep 11
no worries for me. as long as they are not spamming and spreading virus.
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@youless (112113)
• Guangzhou, China
15 Sep 11
Good point.
@JenInTN (27514)
• United States
17 Sep 11
No..I don't mind at all. I think that we should take advantage of the free communication method. I have got a few surprise emails from people I haven;t heard from in years. It was a nice surprise. I guess there might be cases where a person might be contacted that didn't want to be but they could just fix it where the unwanted contact could go to junk if they wanted.
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@youless (112113)
• Guangzhou, China
17 Sep 11
Yes, don't waste the free service
• India
16 Sep 11
i don't mind because most of the peoples using free email accounts. and we get mails only from them whom we know our friends, relatives etc. so its common. I also using hotmail for my personal email use. its great.
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@youless (112113)
• Guangzhou, China
17 Sep 11
Are you Bill Gates?
@thatgirl13 (7294)
• South Korea
15 Sep 11
I don't mind actually. And these days, people don't contact me through mails but through facebook or twitter haha. It's so funny, seems like there is no use of mobile or texts haha!
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@youless (112113)
• Guangzhou, China
19 Sep 11
Oh, actually I still prefer to contact by emails.
@Mayuko (1268)
• United States
25 Jan 12
Of course I don't mind. I don't think many people would use an email account that they have to pay for -- especially when there are numerous free, reliable email services. In fact, if someone send me an email that wasn't from yahoo, gmail, aol or live/hotmail, that's when I'd be a little wary because those are the main ones I'm familiar with and what I'd expect people to use.
@youless (112113)
• Guangzhou, China
27 Jan 12
You are very kind.
@yxinxin (467)
• China
15 Sep 11
No, not at all. I don't care how my friend contacts me. My friends are always welcome no matter how they contact me.
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@youless (112113)
• Guangzhou, China
15 Sep 11
It is very kind of you
@myfb2009 (8296)
• Malaysia
15 Sep 11
I think it is not a serious matter, if my friends and relatives contacting me by free email address. Even myself, most of the time using the Gmail and Yahoo mail to contact my friends and relatives. For me, most important is, i don't want people to send spam mails into my inbox. It is just wasting my time, to read and delete them. Even myself, i seldom use the paid email address which provided by my internet service.
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@youless (112113)
• Guangzhou, China
15 Sep 11
Even deleting the spams takes time.
• United States
15 Sep 11
My internet provider comes with an email address, I don't mind any of my contacts contacting me with any type of free and or paid email. Since they are friends and or family it really does not matter to me.
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@youless (112113)
• Guangzhou, China
15 Sep 11
Our internet provider also offers an email account, but it is very small.
@Strovek (868)
• Malaysia
15 Sep 11
I don't see why it matters which email account is used by my friends. In fact, these email accounts (gmail, hotmail, yahoo) are pretty secure. Only concern is it is used by people pretending to be your friends.
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@youless (112113)
• Guangzhou, China
15 Sep 11
You are right.